This Is The Realest Car We Saw At The LA Auto Show
We spotted this car down the block from the official Jalopnik AirBnB. Let nobody say we’ve gone Hollywood.
As you can see it’s an end-of-the-Clinton-years Chrysler 300M,
crashed, smashed, curbed, wheels stolen, windows smashed and branded
with the warning “snitch.”
The guys across the street who owned the ‘70s Ford Maverick laughed
about it and said the car had been there for about two months. Cops
drive by pretty regularly but nobody bothers it.
Another old Polish guy who moved into the neighborhood about 30 years
ago (he said he fled his country back in ‘75, left Brooklyn some years
later) said the guy was lucky he only had his car trashed. “At least he
didn’t get a bullet,” he offered.
This little neighborhood (not quite Koreatown, I don’t think) used to
see shootings every week, the guy explained, about 20-25 years ago. It’s
cleaned up since they put the new school in down the way, but there are
still extremely real signs of extreme realness to be found.
(Jalopnik.com)
